18/4/2015 - 68th Cannes Film Festival selection unveiled
The official selection of the 68th Cannes Film Festival was unveiled at a packed press conference in Paris on the 16th of April.
Speaking at the press conference, festival delegate general Thierry Fremaux said that "“It’s a beautiful, fresh line-up which formulates ideas, takes risks and says something about the state of creativity in cinema around the world”.
The official competition selection includes new films by the likes of Nanni Moretti, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Hirokazu Koreeda, Todd Haynes, Jacques Audiard and Paolo Sorrentino.
Earlier in the week, it was announced that Emmanuelle Bercot would be making Cannes history with the screening of her film La tete haute as the first film directed by a woman opening the festival since 1987's Diane Kury's A Man in Love.
Here is the full list of films in the official selection of the 68th Cannes Film Festival: